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May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and I’ve just read the fascinating account of biochemist Paulette Agnew, who unknowingly contracted the diseases. Despite a 10 year battle to stay well, she suffered paralysis, memory loss, extreme chronic fatigue, cardiac problems, and a close brush with death. Eventually, she found her own way to survive. making a full recovery from critical illness.

Her story is told in her book just published, FAB Health-Healing from disease and other illness without antibiotics (Morgan James Publishing).

Sometimes called the great imitator, Lyme hides inside nerves and muscle cells, everywhere, and changes its shape inside the body, quickly
becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Symptoms are varied, and many people mistakenly think they have flu-like symptoms: fatigue and numbness and tingling. But it can develop into
Alzheimer’s, arthritis, polymyalgia, Parkinson’s or MS. Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia, a spirochete bacteria. It’s the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the northern hemisphere and there are multiple strains of the bacteria.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for answers to the increase in Antimicrobial Resistance – a global threat to survival- They estimate that by 2050 10 million lives will be lost to superbugs (Borellia is a superbug). Lyme can be transmitted by various vectors including mosquitoes,
horse flies and sex.

Frequency and Bioenergy Medicine (FAB) health approaches are non-toxic and sustainable. combining ancient medical care with cutting-edge technology and devices and includes the emerging field of light, energy, frequency technology and electromagnetic treatment possibilities.

The book explains that your body is made of photons, electrons and water and bound together in perfect frequencies. These are influenced for good
and bad – by our environment, our diet, our thoughts and emotions, others around us and the wider consciousness of humanity.

Our lifestyle choices, environment, stresses, and habits are undeniably part of the cause of our diseases and the reduction in our immune system’s ability to fight bacterial and viral infections.

Paulette believes we now have a choice to make as individuals – to actually heal completely. “This journey to wellness of ourselves, families
and planet is in our hands, it can be fun, it is empowering!”

The book has international endorsements and the foreword by pioneer of organic farming Sir Julian Rose. Leading doctors, thought leaders, nutritionists, educators and environmentalism back it. As Sir Julian says“ “Paulette flings open the window onto a whole new world of nontoxic
treatments that bring into harmony cutting edge technological advances and time honoured wisdom of the ages.”

The book reminded me at what I have always thought, that by integrating alternative practices with modern medicine, we really will begin to see not only the demise of the superbug, but of chronic disease too.

FAB HEALTH – HEALING FROM DISEASE AND OTHER ILLNESSES WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS by Paulette Agnew is out now www.pauletteagnew.com

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By Alan Shaw

WE’RE well into tick season, which runs from March until October.This is important because ticks carry the Borrelia bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Each year 3,000 Britons contract Lyme disease and, while it’s fairly easy to treat if caught early, Paulette Agnew wasn’t so lucky.

“I contracted Lyme disease when I was working in Africa,” says the biochemist, who has written a book about her illness and recovery.

“I was working on the border between Kenya and Southern Sudan, doing trauma healing with child soldiers.

“Conditions were pretty horrendous at the camps and I got ‘something’. In Britain people will get Lyme from a tick, I got mine from a mosquito bite.

“I was very, very ill and the doctor misdiagnosed me as having malaria because I had terrible symptoms of shaking and fever.

“They started injecting me and almost killed me but I went to the School of Tropical Medicine Centre in Nairobi – no malaria.

“I came back to the UK and over 10 years got more and more ill, going between hospitals and doctors and schools of tropical medicine and still being ill.

“My symptoms steadily got worse. I had incredible pain in my feet – I’m a rock climber and mountaineer and I had to stop that – and I spent thousands of pounds having MRI scans on my knees which stopped working. I kept collapsing for no reason, they’d just go underneath me.

“I had increasing fatigue and then I got depression and digestion problems. It was just a nightmare because I’m a health addict, I do yoga every day, I meditate, I have a healthy diet.

“I’d get worse then better then worse again, always going gradually downhill. Insomnia set in, I had light flashing in my head then the shakes started – the nerves in my arms were behaving like I had Parkinson’s or MS. “My limbs would shake and I’d get paralysis and couldn’t move my legs for moments at a time, that was horrendous.

“And the pain! It was everywhere, then I ended up with my left arm paralysed. It just shook the whole time and I couldn’t move it.

“I was in and out of the cardiac department because I kept passing out. I’d walk 10 steps and my heart would go off the scale.

“I had facial palsy and my hair was falling out and still no diagnosis. People would say I was a hypochondriac but then I got Alzheimer’stype symptoms, I couldn’t remember why I’d walked from one room to the next.

“That’s the problem with Lyme, it changes as it progresses. The Borrelia spirochete, the bacteria that causes the disease, moves around the body and reaches the nerves and joints.

“Lyme’s known as ‘the great imitator’. I had MS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s symptoms but I thought, ‘I can’t have them all!’.

“Five years ago I was desperate. I was a basket case, I’d made out my will but a friend said I had to go to Holland and get diagnosed in a specialist clinic.

“Straight away they said, ‘You’ve got Lyme disease’ which hadn’t been on the radar in Britain. I did my research and thought, ‘I’ve got a problem’ because I was in the final stages.

“By the time I got to the clinic my organs had started to crash because I was riddled, it was everywhere.” With Lyme disease, diagnosis doesn’t mean an end to the problems.

As Paulette explains: “Once you start treating it, you get a reaction to the neurotoxins released by the bacteria when they die so you have to monitor how much of the bug you can kill while detoxing the body.

“Because I am a scientist, whatever brain cells I had left that were working made me look at my options. “You’ve got FAB – Frequency and Bioenergy
Medicine – or the regular antibiotics, and I’m allergic to quite a few of them so I knew that wouldn’t be good for me.

“Also, because I was so ill I didn’t think my body could sustain the necessary level of antibiotic treatment.

“The spirochete can change shape which is why it’s so hard to diagnose and treat with antibiotics.

“I put my faith in bioenergy medicine which is very wellknown on the Continent, and I spent four months in a clinic in Holland.

“They used a whole range of treatment including bioresonance, acupuncture, herbs, biophotons, informational medicine treatment, laser and frequency
treatment – basically working with all the kinds of frequency and energy medicine.

“People don’t know they work but I’m living proof! “The clinic took me from the point of somebody helping me to the toilet to be able to briskly walk for half a kilometre.

“It then took me two years to strengthen my body and become symptom-free.

“It takes a long time to kill off all the spirochetes but now I’m back to mountaineering and travelling, and I’m happy.”

They also found that a reduction of weight for overweight and obese patients and the introduction of exercise tailored to mobility could also help ease symptoms.

Not only does obesity increase strain on joints, it can cause low-grade, systemic inflammation in the body, aggravating the
condition.

A calorie-restricted diet, combined with strengthening, flexibility and aerobic exercises, was identified as an effective approach in reducing pain in overweight patients.

There is no evidence that a calorie-restricted diet does anything beneficial for lean patients with the condition.

Adopting a healthier lifestyle will also help reduce cholesterol levels – high blood cholesterol is known to be associated with osteoarthritis.

An increase in foods rich in vitamin K such as kale, spinach and parsley was also found to deliver benefits.

A lack of the vitamin adversely affects bone growth and repair and increases the risk of osteoarthritis.

Margaret Rayman, Professor of Nutritional Medicine, says: “The importance of a good diet and regular exercise shouldn’t be underestimated.

“Not only does it keep us fit and healthy but it can also lessen painful symptoms.

“We are what we eat and it is important that we have the right amount of nutrients from our food to ensure that our bodies work as they should.”

You’d have to be plumb crazy to take a risk with lead poisoning

A MUCH-MISSED late family friend owned his own pharmacy, writes Alan Shaw.

One night, he was awoken from his slumbers by the local constabulary, who informed him that a miscreant had broken into said apothecary’s premises and basically trashed the place.

The thing is, after breaking into the drugs cabinet, the thief had helped himself to some of their contents and was now in something of a state in the nearest A&E.

“Our problem,” said the senior copper, “is that the docs don’t know what he’s taken. They don’t recognise his symptoms and so don’t know how to treat him.

“Could you help work out what he’s necked?”

A good sort, our friend only briefly considered not helping the fella who’d wrecked his shop, and quickly came up with the answer to the mystery.

The chap had ingested quite a large amount of something in which a major ingredient was marked on the label as “Pb”.

“He’s got lead poisoning,” said the chemist who knew the periodic table off by heart and recognised the symbol, Pb being short for plumbum, Latin for lead.

That’s where we got “plumbing” and “plumbing the depths” from, a plumb line using a lead-weighted line to measure how deep water is.

Sure enough, the pharmacy felon was given chelation therapy which basically flushed the lead out of the system, and was fine for his trial, at
which our pal was pleased to give expert – and damning – evidence.

A spell at Her Majesty’s pleasure probably wasn’t much fun but it was certainly better than being left to suffer lead poisoning.

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In fact, it’s believed to cause just under one million deaths per year, mostly in the developing world.

The earliest description of lead poisoning appeared in 2000BC.

In fact, some have laid part of the blame for the fall of the Roman Empire squarely at lead’s door.

It was used extensively in Roman aqueducts, eating and drinking vessels, “sugar of lead” was used to sweeten wine and most common Roman condiments were made by boiling fruit in lead cookware.

This theory has been hotly disputed but analysis of sediment from the Tiber river showed Roman “tap water” had 100 times more lead than local spring waters.

There’s also a theory that lead poisoning might have done for my favourite Baroque painter (yes, really) Caravaggio.

An absolute bampot, he often exhibited tell-tale violent behaviour – like stabbing someone to death over a tennis match – and bones with high levels of lead were recently found in what’s thought to be his grave.

Paints used in the late 16th Century contained high levels of lead salts, and painters often licked their brushes to get a good point.